Hi everyone.
I’m looking forward to sign up for a Shadow PC. Because of my company not willing to provide me with a powerful PC (working in a programming sector), I saw the opportunity of getting a Shadow PC subscription (costed by me, of course, they’re not willing to pay the subscription for me lol).
However, I saw in the F.A.Q that they don’t recommend connecting to a VPN, and I need to connect to the VPN and then to a proxy (inside the VM) to access the intranet. Otherwise, the Shadow PC would be useless for me, as I would 100% dedicate it for programming purposes, but I’m required to connect that way.
Anyone had any experiences connecting to VPN’s inside a Shadow PC? Has anyone had any experiences connecting to a proxy while using a VPN inside a Shadow PC?
Also, like a second question, can you install programs as you want with administrator privileges? While the VPN program is inside the Microsoft Store, the IT department hasn’t enabled the connection from the MS Store program version.
Thanks in advance! HAGD!
Great question!
VPN clients have been known to interfere with Shadow’s services, so we ask that you refrain from installing a VPN on Shadow to avoid losing connection to your service. A VPN will mask our network and may block or redirect your connection on Shadow, preventing you from accessing Shadow.
You can only use a browser extension VPN, as that only masks your browser and does not take control of the whole network on your Shadow.
As user previously also mentioned, split tunneling and not overriding the default route is the key to not break the Shadow.
You can use a VPN that has support of split tunnelling so that you can make specific applications connected to that VPN. This works flawlessly.
Doesn’t work. It completely crashed my Shadow PC so I had to factory reset it.
Learn about routing and you can VPN however you want. Just never override the default route, or your stream will go kaput
I use WireGuard all the time for a private access to my shadow, but I don’t go AllowedIPs=0.0.0.0/0
I use a VPN extension on Chrome to watch content that’s region locked on Youtube and it works just fine.
You can’t have a VPN with shadow.
I have at times used a VPN on my native desktop and then signed into and launched Shadow. Not to game, mind you, but only because I’m usually running a VPN and I sometimes forget when launching Shadow.
If you’re only wanting to do something like run Photoshop or a browser inside Shadow, the latency of connecting through a VPN is probably negligible.
But I haven’t had experience running a VPN inside Shadow, and as someone else stated, I’m pretty sure it doesn’t work. I don’t remember specifically, but I think Shadow says the same thing, much like how they say running virtual desktops inside Shadow doesn’t work.
I tried this with ExpressVPN and I’m still getting a system crash when I connect. Any idea what I might be doing wrong?
Prince of privacy but not so much of TCP/IP 
Yes you can. May depends on which VPN you use but I am using OPENVPN to connect to my local network without any problem so far.
I was thinking that the Shadow client works the same like VMWare ESXi previsualizer. Shows the VM always, doesn’t matter if the connection is up or down.
Kind of sad Shadow doesn’t work at all for me 
really dont have any idead about that. i remember using proton and it was working. maybe you can try that. you need to be sure split tunnel the apps you want to work. if you open system-wide vpn, it was crashing shadow so you need to reset the system.
Proton split tunneling worked!
Hey what IPs did you split? I am Using PIA VPn and set up split tunelling for 10.0.1.0/24 all the way through to 10.0.8.0/24 but I just freeze when connecting and have to restart my shadow.